Point Break

Point Break is a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The title refers to the surfing term point break.

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Patrick Swayze is Bodhi, the charismatic leader of a gang of surfing bank robbers who steal in order to fund surfing lifestyles and skydiving expeditions and as a form of rebellion against a social system that they believe "kills the human spirit." Reeves plays FBI agent Johnny Utah, who goes undercover in the hope of finding and infiltrating the gang and finds himself increasingly attracted to their adrenaline-charged lifestyle. Bodhi and Utah develop a strong friendship that is doomed from the beginning by this state of affairs, though Bodhi doesn't find out he's FBI until further.

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The bank robbers are known as the Ex-Presidents, because they hide their faces behind masks of former US presidents, allowing the filmmakers to insert a subtext of political satire in the action scenes. By the end of the movie, Johnny is so absorbed by this lifestyle that refuses to arrest Bodhi and instead lets him seek his own death surfing the giant waves of Bells Beach, Australia, in a raging 50 year storm. In the end justice takes its toll on the bank robber, but the message that life is empty and meaningless without living on the edge also comes across, as Johnny throws his police badge into the ocean and continues surfing "every day."

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Keanu Reeves: Keanu Charles Reeves (born on September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Anglo/Canadian Hollywood film actor. Although currently working in the United States, Reeves has dual citizenship in both Canada and the UK, and is an avid ice hockey player/fan who was his high school team's MVP....

Patrick Swayze: Patrick Wayne Swayze, (born 18 August, 1952), is a dancer, actor and singer, memorable for his roles in the films Dirty Dancing (1987), "Roadhouse", Ghost (1990), Black Dog (1998), and Donnie Darko (2001). He also famous for the North and South miniseries....

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